Chocolate Mint Cupcakes

Well i must admit Chocolate is what is keeping me going at the moment through this pregnancy all the things i love a just cant have! so im looking forward to a glass of wine or a cocktail with a delish antipasto platter but as for now chocolate is my friend so when i read fellow blogger Apparently Jessy's Cadbury Bubbly Cupcake recipe i had to make it!

I thought id be a bit flash too and buy some fancy cupcake papers as i happened to be in the neighbourhood of my cake shop this week however i wasn't too impressed with them they seemed to give off a plastic like smell when baking and they were quite difficult to remove from the cake when cool so from now on ill think ill just stick to my good old cupcake papers i buy from Countdown.

Chocolate Mint Cupcakes:

1/2 cup boiling water

1/4 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup cocoa powder

1 1/2 cups of self raising powder

1 egg

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

1/2 a king size block of Cabury Bubbly - chopped fine

Place water, butter, sugar, cocoa, into a electric mixer and beat until the sugar has dissolved

Add egg, sour cream, Vanilla and flour and beat, then add in the mint chocolate and beat again

place into cupcake papers - i got 18x out of this mix

bake for 15- 20 mins on 180 degrees

Frosting:

100g butter

1 1/2 cups of icing sugar sifted

a drop of pepermint essence

a drop of green food colouring

1-2 tablespoons of milk

Beat butter till light and fluffy then add the icing sugar add the milk a tablespoon at a time till you get a thick yummy looking frosting

- i also had a go at making a frosting using the left over Cadbury Bubbly chocolate i had, i put two lines of chocolate ( i ate the third line haha) through the magic bullet and blitzed it to death then added it to the frosting recipie excluding the pepermint essence i thought it tasted quite nice and complimented the cupcakes well but it was harder to pipe and the colour wasnt as nice but still yum!

Happy baking everyone!